Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac [electronic resource]: a critical history of operations in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, from the commencement to the close of the war 1861-5 . ed in the coining battle will presently appear. General McDowell moved his army from the banks of thePotomac on the afternoon of July 16th. The movable columnconsisted of four divisions—the First Division, under GeneralTvler; the Second, under General Hunter; the Third, underGeneral Heintzelman ; the Fifth, under Colonel Miles. TheFourth Division, under General Bunyon, was left in the workson the south bank o
Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac [electronic resource]: a critical history of operations in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, from the commencement to the close of the war 1861-5 . ed in the coining battle will presently appear. General McDowell moved his army from the banks of thePotomac on the afternoon of July 16th. The movable columnconsisted of four divisions—the First Division, under GeneralTvler; the Second, under General Hunter; the Third, underGeneral Heintzelman ; the Fifth, under Colonel Miles. TheFourth Division, under General Bunyon, was left in the workson the south bank of the Potomac. These divisions made an * Patterson : Narrative of the Campaign in the Valley of the Shenandoah,p. 57. General Johnston, in conversation with the writer touching this point, madea ludicn ms comment on Pattersons statement of his numbers. On my mention-ing to him that Patterson, in a Narrative recently published, had put downthe Confederate strength at forty thousand, General Johnston laughingly ex-claimed : Why, if he had really thought that I had forty thousand, or halfthat number, sooner than have crossed the Potomac he would have thrownhimself headlong into REFERENCES f rnion Troops. a r £. Porter tfufrvtvrd toi- (/u/tpuiqitx of tfw Artnv (if tjnr fotoriittc Confederate Troops. First & In a I: Positions 1. 1. Cocki X % iiiljtniL 3. 3 /Jtr£l71J U if Hee 5. 6 0 /ionhtuu 7. 7 Klxtf 8. »?Ellr/v 9 »? Stuarts Crw. IO. 10 Mtrell 11. 11 Loitqvtreel /. /? 1* 13. THE THREE MONTHS CAMPAIGN. 47 aggregate of about thirty-five thousand men. They moved infour columns : one by the turnpike; one by the lateral countryroads on the right; one on the left of the railroad; andanother between the turnpike and railroad, following what isknown as the Braddock road.* It was known that FairfaxCourthouse was held as an outpost by a brigade of SouthCarolina troops, and the three right columns we
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